Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 89

The poor man was so frightened he was unable to reply; but Bergmann, who had more experience, said, "It does not matter where the stone comes from; you need only tell us how much you will give for it."

Who acts: poor man, Bergmann, It, stone, you · What happens: be, reply, have, say, not matter, come · To what, where: more experience, us, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, Bergmann, It, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unable	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 unable	cop
9	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frightened	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 reply	mark
11	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unable	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
14	Bergmann	Bergmann	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Bergmann	acl:relcl
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 experience	amod
19	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Bergmann	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 matter	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 matter	punct
24	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 matter	nsubj
25	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 matter	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 matter	advmod
27	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 comes	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stone	det
30	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comes	nsubj
31	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 matter	advcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	31 comes	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 tell	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 tell	nsubj
35	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	aux
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 tell	advmod
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 frightened	parataxis
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 tell	iobj
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 much	advmod
40	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 give	obj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 give	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 give	aux
43	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 tell	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 give	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor man			frightened property	tree rules
2	is	past	Bergmann			unable property	tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	to-infinitive	Bergmann not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Bergmann	more experience			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Bergmann				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not matter in a quote	present · do-support	It				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
7	come in a quote	present	the stone				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you		us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
9	give in a quote	future	you	much		for stone	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent much=Theme for it=Asset

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 89